Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesPaul A. Bennett World Publishing Company, 1951 - 417 páginas A collection of forty articles, poems, and essays by practitioners of the art of bookmaking. A unique feature of this book is that its articles are set in twenty-two different typefaces; thus it serves as a student's specimen book, affording an interesting comparison of the "color" and body of various composition faces while at the same time supplementing the comments of the typographic experts. More than one hundred illustrations of printers' marks, decorative bookplates, specimen pages, etc., complement the text--From publisher description. |
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... limited editions racket . But the mean- ing of " privacy " remains unchanged and a private press is what it has always been , a personal activity . I cannot improve on my original statement . To fill out the record with some definitions ...
... limited editions racket . But the mean- ing of " privacy " remains unchanged and a private press is what it has always been , a personal activity . I cannot improve on my original statement . To fill out the record with some definitions ...
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... edition of The Anatomy . Our books were published in " limited editions " because we had to rope in the collector as well as the reader and student . We have found that it was necessary to impose another sort of limit on our output a ...
... edition of The Anatomy . Our books were published in " limited editions " because we had to rope in the collector as well as the reader and student . We have found that it was necessary to impose another sort of limit on our output a ...
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... limited editions , requires an obedience to convention which is almost absolute - and with reason . Since printing is essentially a means of multiplying , it must not only be good in itself - but be good for a common purpose . The wider ...
... limited editions , requires an obedience to convention which is almost absolute - and with reason . Since printing is essentially a means of multiplying , it must not only be good in itself - but be good for a common purpose . The wider ...
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OTTO F EGE The Story of the Alphabet | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
RUTH S GRANNISS Colophons | 31 |
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